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Bayesian optimization is an effective method for optimizing expensive-to-evaluate black-box functions. High-dimensional problems are particularly challenging as the surrogate model of the objective suffers from the curse of dimensionality,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Erik Orm Hellsten , Carl Hvarfner , Leonard Papenmeier , Luigi Nardi

Bayesian optimization (BO ) is an effective method for optimizing expensive-to-evaluate black-box functions. While high-dimensional problems can be particularly challenging, due to the multitude of parameter choices and the potentially high…

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High-Performance Computing (HPC) schedulers must balance user performance with facility-wide resource constraints. The task boils down to selecting the optimal number of nodes for a given job. We present a surrogate-assisted multi-objective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Ashna Nawar Ahmed , Banooqa Banday , Terry Jones , Tanzima Z. Islam

NUBO, short for Newcastle University Bayesian Optimisation, is a Bayesian optimization framework for the optimization of expensive-to-evaluate black-box functions, such as physical experiments and computer simulators. Bayesian optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Mike Diessner , Kevin J. Wilson , Richard D. Whalley

Optimization is becoming increasingly common in scientific and engineering domains. Oftentimes, these problems involve various levels of stochasticity or uncertainty in generating proposed solutions. Therefore, optimization in these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-05 Peter D. Tonner , Daniel V. Samarov , A. Gilad Kusne

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a foundational strategy in the field of engineering design optimization for efficiently handling black-box functions with many constraints and expensive evaluations. This paper introduces a fast and accurate BO…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Rosen , Yu , Cyril Picard , Faez Ahmed

Since deep neural networks were developed, they have made huge contributions to everyday lives. Machine learning provides more rational advice than humans are capable of in almost every aspect of daily life. However, despite this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Tong Yu , Hong Zhu

This paper reviews the state-of-the-art model-based adaptive sampling approaches for single-objective black-box optimization (BBO). While BBO literature includes various promising sampling techniques, there is still a lack of comprehensive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-25 Nazanin Nezami , Hadis Anahideh

Zero-shot hyperparameter optimization (HPO) is a simple yet effective use of transfer learning for constructing a small list of hyperparameter (HP) configurations that complement each other. That is to say, for any given dataset, at least…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-28 Fela Winkelmolen , Nikita Ivkin , H. Furkan Bozkurt , Zohar Karnin

BayesianOptimization(BO) is a sample-efficient black-box optimizer, and extensive methods have been proposed to build the absolute function response of the black-box function through a probabilistic surrogate model, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Xiaoxing Wang , Jiaxing Li , Chao Xue , Wei Liu , Weifeng Liu , Xiaokang Yang , Junchi Yan , Dacheng Tao

Hyperparameter optimization aims to find the optimal hyperparameter configuration of a machine learning model, which provides the best performance on a validation dataset. Manual search usually leads to get stuck in a local hyperparameter…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-01 Jungtaek Kim , Saehoon Kim , Seungjin Choi

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is an effective method for optimizing expensive-to-evaluate black-box functions with a wide range of applications for example in robotics, system design and parameter optimization. However, scaling BO to problems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Lukas P. Fröhlich , Edgar D. Klenske , Christian G. Daniel , Melanie N. Zeilinger

Black-box discrete optimization (BB-DO) problems arise in many real-world applications, such as neural architecture search and mathematical model estimation. A key challenge in BB-DO is epistasis among parameters where multiple variables…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Aoi Kato , Kenta Kojima , Masahiro Nomura , Isao Ono

Safe Bayesian optimization (BO) with Gaussian processes is an effective tool for tuning control policies in safety-critical real-world systems, specifically due to its sample efficiency and safety guarantees. However, most safe BO…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Abdullah Tokmak , Thomas B. Schön , Dominik Baumann

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a powerful tool for optimizing complex non-linear systems. However, its performance degrades in high-dimensional problems with tightly coupled parameters and highly asymmetric objective landscapes, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Aashwin Mishra , Matt Seaberg , Ryan Roussel , Daniel Ratner , Apurva Mehta

Because of its sample efficiency, Bayesian optimization (BO) has become a popular approach dealing with expensive black-box optimization problems, such as hyperparameter optimization (HPO). Recent empirical experiments showed that the loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Difan Deng , Marius Lindauer

Despite the growing interest in designing truly interactive hyperparameter optimization (HPO) methods, to date, only a few allow to include human feedback. Existing interactive Bayesian optimization (BO) methods incorporate human beliefs by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Jonas Seng , Fabrizio Ventola , Zhongjie Yu , Kristian Kersting

There are a lot of real-world black-box optimization problems that need to optimize multiple criteria simultaneously. However, in a multi-objective optimization (MOO) problem, identifying the whole Pareto front requires the prohibitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Ryota Ozaki , Kazuki Ishikawa , Youhei Kanzaki , Shinya Suzuki , Shion Takeno , Ichiro Takeuchi , Masayuki Karasuyama

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a technique for sample-efficient black-box optimization that employs probabilistic models to identify promising input locations for evaluation. When dealing with composite-structured functions, such as f=g o h,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Natalie Maus , Zhiyuan Jerry Lin , Maximilian Balandat , Eytan Bakshy

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a widely-used sequential method for zeroth-order optimization of complex and expensive-to-compute black-box functions. The existing BO methods assume that the function evaluation (feedback) is available to the…

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